“It’s all in the rear-view mirror… The family is in great shape. The family really is in great shape. Sometimes luck is the residue of design … There’s no one in my family — there’s the Katz family, the Wilpon family, kids — [that now] has any personal bank debt. Zero. Everything has been paid. We don’t owe a dollar to anybody … “That’s what made us tight. We were still getting revenues. Lots of revenues. But those revenues were going to pay off debt. That’s done.”

Wilpon said that starting next year that the payroll will go up and Sandy Alderson can chase free agents “if prudent.”

You’d like to believe Wilpon here if you’re a Mets fan. But this is also the guy who, when all of the Madoff stuff began, said that it wouldn’t impact the Mets or the on-the-field product. It certainly has.

So put up or shut up, Fred. That’s the only way you’re going to win back the Mets fans your ownership of the team has alienated.

The Wilpoons aren’t in Scrooge’s class. They screwed themselves. They screwed the team. For all I know, they even screwed the pooch.

But they did not even come close to doing to New York what Scrooge McLoria and the Chihuahua inflicted upon Macondo with the Macondo Banana Massacre Field scam. Not even proximate to close. If you scaled up for an accurate comparison, you’d be talking about the theft of an amount equal to the entire national budget of a third world armpit with nuclear ambitions. The Wilpoons aren’t even marginally bright enough to pull that off.

Why sign an outfielder when your only reason for avoiding a dead last finish this year is Miami? Why throw money at a team that’s going to be bad regardless? Mets need to lay low, accumulate prospects, let the ones they have mature. They’re not close.

Chill:
Let’s come to an agreement.
Neither of us will ever (under any circumstances) mention the names Loria, Wilpon, Selig and three way in the same sentence again.
You just wrecked my afternoon.
Thanks a lot Man!

The family may be in good shape, but the Mets are screwed. The Wilpon’s are borrowing from Peter (SNY) to pay Paul (Citi Field). The house of cards is eventually going to fall, it’s just a matter of when.

Ebenezer Loria and Fast Freddy Wilpon actually have a lot in common. They are both lying crooks who took down the fans while enriching themselves. Notice Wilpon said we don’t have any “personal debt”. True you protected your own wealth by siphoning money from the Mets. Your corporations still owes hundred of millions that will end up being settled in bankruptcy court. They both reduced payroll this past off season and the both care nothing about winning. The two of them don’t make one.

As I’ve pointed out in the past the reason Wilpon, Loria, Dolan, Nutting and Glass continue to retain control of their teams because of one man; Bud Selig. When the man at the top protects it’s cronies from standards that would be applied to others one has a problem. However because the media doesn’t care or outright hates the teams they won’t press Selig on his hypocrisy.

“There’s no one in my family — there’s the Katz family, the Wilpon family, kids — [that now] has any personal bank debt. Zero. Everything has been paid. We don’t owe a dollar to anybody. We have mortgages on buildings and stuff like that, but we don’t owe a dollar.”

So you have mortgages… but you don’t owe a dollar. How does that work, Freddy boy?